The Program for the Industrial Doctorate on Strategic Innovation for Sustainable and Smart Ecosystems (SIS2E) focuses on two fundamental opposites, i.e., (1) development of basic science and technology versus its valorization and dissemination, and (2) a cross-disciplinary versus a specialization approach. As such, educational and research methods are stretched and oriented towards spanning the scientific world with the ‘real’ world where science contributes to society and business.

The program builds on interaction between peers as well as individual and personalized coaching, aimed at improving the participants’ economic and social skills.

We aim to ‘create’ researchers that develop brad competencies enabling them to take up managerial responsibilities in companies and in the larger international context.

Coordinator: Prof. Paul Marc Matthyssens

Deputy Coordinator: Prof. Francesco Peri